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I am still in Chicago, mostly getting drunk with my brother and his friends. Last night I got very drunk and had a conversation about fisting with complete strangers. Oops? Sometimes I think the combination of New Orleans and fandom has ruined me for normal human interaction.
I missed the Empires show tonight because adronai and a bunch of his friends were going to dinner, and I wanted to do that more than I wanted to see Tom Conrad. *hands* Does that make me a bad bandom fangirl? (Two days ago my brother came in and dropped a copy of the Redeye (free daily newspaper) on the table in front of me and said, "Your boy's in the Redeye." In it was a picture of Pete and Ashlee and more discussion of their engagement. I love when my friends and family support my fannishness even when I know they deeply do not understand it.)
Yesterday I spent most of the day hanging out with femmenerd, who is as awesome as I remembered, and her cat, who is quite possibly the sweetest cat in existence. We watched SPN and BSG and cwrps fanvids of epicness and geeked out a lot and it was fantastic.
I've read a lot of reactions to the Supernatural finale, most either overwhelmingly positive or overwhelmingly negative. Mine were somewhere in the middle. I personally didn't have the emotional, punched in the gut reaction that I had to the first two season finales. It was very tense, and I liked that about it, but nothing in it *surprised* me. I'm willing to forgive some sloppiness because they had to cut their season short, but I found it pretty predictable. They *had* to send Dean to hell. I'm glad they didn't cop out, but I didn't really think they would, and since we know he's going to get out of hell, they don't have the potential for real consequence the way they did at the end of season 1 when they really could leave John dead. I think it would have been a better cliffhanger if they'd ended it after Lilith's flash of light. It would have left me with a much more wtf reaction. I will say that watching Dean get ripped apart was pretty traumatic. And if we get Sam as the anti-Christ superstar, that's going to be pretty amazing.
Re: the misogyny, yes. It bothered me. I tend to handwave "bitch," (not that it doesn't bother me sometimes, but it's easier for me to overlook) but *sexualized,* gendered insults will always, ALWAYS throw me. I flinch every time I hear skank, slut or whore, not just in Supernatural but anywhere. And yes, that makes television watching difficult at times. At times it makes real life difficult. But do I wish I didn't have to hear it from the mouths of characters that I love? Yes. I really, really do. I also don't like the extent to which Kripke panders to internet fandom, and Femme and I were talking about this, but I wish he wouldn't let the fans dictate the story so much. It's weird and it actually makes me trust him less. (I used to *always* trust him with character arcs and emotional follow-through, even if I didn't trust him with the plot always making logistical sense. I'm more concerned with emotional sense). I liked Bela a lot and I'm mad that she's gone. I miss Jo and Ellen. They can't keep losing their entire supporting cast. I mean, I like Bobby, but he shouldn't be all there is.
As for BSG, I just wish I had something meta-y and intelligent to say about it. My overwhelming reaction was ATHENA!!!!!!, which is pretty typical for me. At this point I'm just kind of waiting to what they do. I don't even know who I think the final cylon is; really no option makes sense to me. I hope they come up with something brilliant. Don't disappoint me, BSG.
And that's all I know. I'm going to wander around downtown tomorrow while adronai is at a job interview if the weather is nice. Otherwise I will hole up in his apartment and do laundry and maybe write fic. Or maybe do something productive like try to figure out housing in DC. Ha.
I missed the Empires show tonight because adronai and a bunch of his friends were going to dinner, and I wanted to do that more than I wanted to see Tom Conrad. *hands* Does that make me a bad bandom fangirl? (Two days ago my brother came in and dropped a copy of the Redeye (free daily newspaper) on the table in front of me and said, "Your boy's in the Redeye." In it was a picture of Pete and Ashlee and more discussion of their engagement. I love when my friends and family support my fannishness even when I know they deeply do not understand it.)
Yesterday I spent most of the day hanging out with femmenerd, who is as awesome as I remembered, and her cat, who is quite possibly the sweetest cat in existence. We watched SPN and BSG and cwrps fanvids of epicness and geeked out a lot and it was fantastic.
I've read a lot of reactions to the Supernatural finale, most either overwhelmingly positive or overwhelmingly negative. Mine were somewhere in the middle. I personally didn't have the emotional, punched in the gut reaction that I had to the first two season finales. It was very tense, and I liked that about it, but nothing in it *surprised* me. I'm willing to forgive some sloppiness because they had to cut their season short, but I found it pretty predictable. They *had* to send Dean to hell. I'm glad they didn't cop out, but I didn't really think they would, and since we know he's going to get out of hell, they don't have the potential for real consequence the way they did at the end of season 1 when they really could leave John dead. I think it would have been a better cliffhanger if they'd ended it after Lilith's flash of light. It would have left me with a much more wtf reaction. I will say that watching Dean get ripped apart was pretty traumatic. And if we get Sam as the anti-Christ superstar, that's going to be pretty amazing.
Re: the misogyny, yes. It bothered me. I tend to handwave "bitch," (not that it doesn't bother me sometimes, but it's easier for me to overlook) but *sexualized,* gendered insults will always, ALWAYS throw me. I flinch every time I hear skank, slut or whore, not just in Supernatural but anywhere. And yes, that makes television watching difficult at times. At times it makes real life difficult. But do I wish I didn't have to hear it from the mouths of characters that I love? Yes. I really, really do. I also don't like the extent to which Kripke panders to internet fandom, and Femme and I were talking about this, but I wish he wouldn't let the fans dictate the story so much. It's weird and it actually makes me trust him less. (I used to *always* trust him with character arcs and emotional follow-through, even if I didn't trust him with the plot always making logistical sense. I'm more concerned with emotional sense). I liked Bela a lot and I'm mad that she's gone. I miss Jo and Ellen. They can't keep losing their entire supporting cast. I mean, I like Bobby, but he shouldn't be all there is.
As for BSG, I just wish I had something meta-y and intelligent to say about it. My overwhelming reaction was ATHENA!!!!!!, which is pretty typical for me. At this point I'm just kind of waiting to what they do. I don't even know who I think the final cylon is; really no option makes sense to me. I hope they come up with something brilliant. Don't disappoint me, BSG.
And that's all I know. I'm going to wander around downtown tomorrow while adronai is at a job interview if the weather is nice. Otherwise I will hole up in his apartment and do laundry and maybe write fic. Or maybe do something productive like try to figure out housing in DC. Ha.